|
|
 |
| Press Release Images: Spirit |
 |
|
02-Feb-2004
|
Opportunity And Spirit Reach Out
Full Press Release
|
 |
True Colors Shining Through
This image mosaic illustrates how scientists use the color calibration targets (upper left) located on both Mars Exploration Rovers to fine-tune the rovers' sense of color. In the center, spectra, or light signatures, acquired in the laboratory of the colored chips on the targets are shown as lines. Actual data from Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera is mapped on top of these lines as dots. The plot demonstrates that the observed colors of Mars match the colors of the chips, and thus approximate the red planet's true colors. This finding is further corroborated by the picture taken on Mars of the calibration target, which shows the colored chips as they would appear on Earth.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
|
|
Browse Image |
Medium Image (95 kB) |
Large (291 kB)
|
|
 |
Magic Carpet Shows Its Colors
The upper left image in this display is from the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, showing the "Magic Carpet" region near the rover at Gusev Crater, Mars, on Sol 7, the seventh martian day of its journey (Jan. 10, 2004). The lower image, also from the panoramic camera, is a monochrome (single filter) image of a rock in the "Magic Carpet" area. Note that colored portions of the rock correlate with extracted spectra shown in the plot to the side. Four different types of materials are shown: the rock itself, the soil in front of the rock, some brighter soil on top of the rock, and some dust that has collected in small recesses on the rock face ("spots"). Each color on the spectra matches a line on the graph, showing how the panoramic camera's different colored filters are used to broadly assess the varying mineral compositions of martian rocks and soils.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
|
|
Browse Image |
Medium Image (123 kB) |
Large (408 kB)
|
|
|
|
JPL Image Use Policy
|
